Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, June 25th, 2018. I'm your host Brian McCullough.

Today, new noise cancelling airpods might be coming. AT&T buys

AP Nexus, more Trump and Chinese tech rumblings, and what is the future of benchmark capital.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

As one of the tech meme editors joked on Slack this morning, Mark German did his Monday thing again.

In Bloomberg this morning, German did his usual Apple rumor drop, this time relating to AirPods.

According to Germin next year, 2019, Apple will unveil some high-end earpods,

which will be over-the-ear wireless headphones with noise cancellation and water

resistance. It's also possible that some biometric sensors could be coming to

the air-pods someday, something like a heart rate monitor, and Apple is also working to increase

the range with which air pods can work away from an eye device.

With an over-the-ear design and noise cancelling, these new earpods would compete with high-end

earphones from the likes of Bose and Senheiser, but German believes they will be Apple-branded,

so they'll also be competing with higher end devices from Apple's own Beats

headphone lineup. And these will definitely be higher end as German believes they

will definitely come in at a higher price point than the current $159 that the existing air pods go for.

But German says the existing air pod lineup will be refreshed this year with a new chip and support

for hands-free Siri activation.

Oh, and German says that a new version of HomePods could be coming as early as next year as well.

More moves on the consolidation chessboard today.

AT&T confirmed this morning that it will buy App Nexus for an undisclosed amount of money.

App Nexus is a programmatic advertising marketplace that competes with the likes of

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